[oe] [PATCH] slugos-image: fix opkg-cl hanging on installing device tables

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Mike Westerhof <mike at mwester.net> wrote:

> Henry von Tresckow wrote:
> > opkg-cl was hanging during slugos image builds due to opkg-cl waiting for
> an answer for overwriting the device tables.
> > adding " -force-defaults" to IPKG_ARGS allows the image to build
>
> This is fixing a symptom, not the real problem.  I've just committed a
> SlugOS-specific fix that dodges this problem, so I don't recommend we
> apply this.  Specifically, we *do* want to know if we're overwriting a
> config file while building the rootfs so that we can use a
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER or similar mechanism to select the correct one.
>
> The root cause is the original commit a week or two ago that incorrectly
> changed the handling of the device_table file.
>
> The "fix" I committed "backs out" one line of that bad commit in a
> SlugOS-specific recipe -- which isn't a fix, but at least it gets SlugOS
> building again, is no worse than things were originally, and it affects
> no other distros.
>
> -Mike (mwester)
>
>
Thanks for fixing this.
-- 
Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)